Self-hosted, Perplexity-style answer engines. 5 projects, sorted by GitHub stars.
ItzCrazyKns/Vane
Self-hosted AI answering engine that searches the web via SearXNG and answers with citations using local or cloud LLMs.
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v vane-data:/home/vane/data --name vane itzcrazykns1337/vane:latest
dzhng/deep-research
Simplest open implementation of an iterative deep-research agent combining search, scraping and LLMs.
npm install
MODSetter/SurfSense
Privacy-focused, self-hostable research assistant over your documents and connected sources.
Says it is an open-source alternative to NotebookLM (from its README)
Install: Docker install per README/docs.
zaidmukaddam/scira
Minimal AI search engine (formerly MiniPerplx) that cites sources, built on the Vercel AI SDK.
docker compose up
miurla/morphic
AI answer engine with a generative UI; self-host with your own model and search providers.
docker compose up -dStars, licences and last-commit dates come from the GitHub REST API, fetched 17 Oct 2026. Archived repos, repos with no commit in 12 months and non-open licences are excluded. Install commands are copied from each README.